“ Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. ”
Compare the marginal reference. The prohibition of Deuteronomy 22:10 was also dictated by humanity. The ox and the donkey being of such different size and strength, it would be cruel to the latte...
See Exodus 23:4 f.* (JE) and Leviticus 6:1-7 * (P), and cf. CH. §§ 9- 13. Deuteronomy 22:5 . Peculiar to Dt. In one of the rites of Canaanite, Phœ nician, and Syrian heathenism the sexes ch...
ox and an ass. One clean, the other unclean; one tall, the other short, therefore cruel under the same yoke.
Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass - It is generally supposed that mixtures of different sorts in seed, breed, etc., were employed for sup...
Ver. 10. Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together — We refer to Leviticus 19:19 respecting these unnatural mixtures. This, as well as the other particulars, is thought to have respec...
Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. Whether this association, like the mixture of seeds, had been dictated by superstitious...
Laws regarding Lost Property, Distinction of Sex in Apparel, and Chastity 1-4. Law of Lost Property: see Exodus 23:4 and note.
(9-11) These precepts appear also in Leviticus 19:19 , more briefly.
LAWS OF PURITY (CHASTITY AND MARRIAGE) IN dealing with the ten commandments it has been already shown that, though these great statements of religious and moral truth were to some extent inadequat...
Here we have the record of the laws conditioning life in love and neighborliness. Every man was enjoined to take care of his brother's lost things if he found them; and he was also to help the hurt a...
Similar commands we meet with in Leviticus 19:19 . Certainly there must have been somewhat of a spiritual meaning couched under these things; and what more likely to be intended by it, than that the...
Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together ,.... They might be used separately, but not together; nor was it uncommon in some countries for asses to be employed in ploughing as well as oxe...
Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. Ver. 10. Thou shalt not plough. ] These laws were made to set forth how God abhorreth all mixtures in religion, and how carefully men should kee...
Divers seeds Either, 1st, With divers kinds of seeds mixed and sowed together between the rows of vines in thy vineyard: which was forbidden to be done in the field, ( Leviticus 19:19 ,) and here i...
LAWS THAT TEST TRUE DISCERNMENT (vs.1-12) The laws in this section require a proper consideration of God's creation, whether of humans, animals, birds or even inanimate things. This involves our...
Various Prohibitions. B. C. 1451. 5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unt...
Either, 1. Because the one was a clean beast, the other unclean; whereby God would teach men to avoid polluting themselves by the touch of unclean persons or things, 2 Corinthians 6:14 . Or, 2...
Israel Must Avoid All That Is Unseemly ( Deuteronomy 22:5-12 ) Israel was to avoid all that was unseemly. That had applied with regard to what living things could be eaten ( Deuteronomy 14:3-21 )...
CRITICAL NOTES .—The cases stated and provided for in Deuteronomy 22:1-12 seem selected by way of example, and belong, according to our notions, rather to ethics than to law. It in noteworthy that...
Deuteronomy 22:5 . All that do so are abomination to the Lord. The note of Maimonides here is, that men presenting themselves before Venus, appeared partially in female attire; and women presentin...
Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. A law for the ox and the ass There was a reason for this prohibition. The step of an ox and an ass being different, they could not pull toget...
EXPOSITION REGULATIONS REGARDING CATTLE STRAYED OR THINGS LOST , THE APPAREL OF THE SEXES , THE TAKING OF BIRDS , AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF HOUSES . CONFUSIO...
Various Minor Regulations
2 Corinthians 6:14-16
An ox and an ass — Because the one was a clean beast, the other unclean whereby God would teach men to avoid polluting themselves by the touch of unclean persons or things.